Lowered Techspectations
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Helping you deal with working in tech. Featuring advice columnist Zen Paycheck and comics by @theorangefedora.bsky.social Biweekly newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/LoweredTechspectations
Excellent comic about AI avatars (profiles) on Facebook, designed to appeal to particular customers but which are exceedingly problematic. Cheers to @whittaylor.bsky.social. Read: www.patreon.com/CrucialComix...
New Comic: Off Script | Crucial Comix
Grappling with AI and Digital Blackface About the artist: Whit Taylor is a cartoonist, writer, editor, and public health educator from New
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Come check out my art studio if you're in the area! There will be food trucks and a new art gallery show opening. Lots to see! Saturday the 22nd from 5-7:30.
Today's Lowered Techspectations newsletter shows what goes wrong when everyone is prompting but no one is reading the output. Know the feeling? #techworkers #aislop
Don't you hate it when you get assigned 'action items' from meetings you weren't even in?? Check out this week's newsletter!
Let's give AI agents credit cards to buy API stuff, what could possibly go wrong??
Strategent (the company where Lowered Techspecations takes place) conducts twice-annual biennial Employee Engagement Surveys, and then tries to act on the results.
Wait til you see what I hallucinated.
ceej@ceej.online · 2mo agogonna start talking like this to my boss
Wait, you draw all these comics by hand? Yes, @theorangefedora.bsky.social does. The latest newsletter dropped today.
What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"
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This week's newsletter, Frank tokenmaxxes all the vibes. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs... #tokenmaxxing#vibecoding
Vibe coding without the vibes
Twist my arm and give me a Mac Mini
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Congratulations to Barb on earning Employee of the month at Strategent, again! She's gotten us out of so many scrapes, we truly CANNOT fire her. 😅
The alpha plane has had to make some serious pivots along the way.
Great article on the miserable 'it's inevitable' language coming from AI boosters, written by Mike Monteiro of Mule Design.
Describing the current state of San Francisco to a writer friend: Me: You cannot satirize this place. It is beyond satire. Them *eyes glowing, voice echoing*: Challenge accepted.
This week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter - can AI replace engineers?????? buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
A token engineer
Frank complains to Dogboss
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Dogboss is distancing himself from the Ferrari situation.
In this week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter, Darlington's teammates go looking for him. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs... #workingintech
No return
Two-way portals cost extra
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Darlington, a brave speech engineer at Strategent, volunteered to try the new portal to another dimension. In today's newsletter you find out where he went. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
seems like a great technology to build literally everything on
Needing some strength on a Monday? Zen Paycheck recommends: The Pretender by Jackson Browne on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/XX6xLCOIPfgX... #mondays #worklifegrind
The Pretender
Jackson Browne is not only a pivotal figure in the artistic history of Elektra/Asylum – remaining with the label for a remarkable 30 years – but the very existence of Asylum Records was a direct resul
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
